“Nebraska” is the lowest grossing best-picture nominee. In “Nebraska,” the brilliant small-budget dark comedy from Alexander Payne, an aging alcoholic receives a mass-mailed sweepstakes letter that he alone doesn’t realize is just a scammy way to sell magazines. Unable to drive and unable to be dissuaded, Woodrow Grant (a bedraggled Bruce Dern) sets out on […]
“Lone Survivor” underscores the boldness of its title in the first scene, in which Mark Wahlberg, playing the real-life Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, appears bloody and mangled on an operating room table, flatlining. This, it turns out, is your lone survivor: The guy who’s borderline dead. One of the grittiest, most grueling war movies ever […]
According to local musician Rudy Volkmann, many elementary school students in the CSRA don’t know what jazz is and have never had the opportunity to see live music. “We’re often told that not only are we the only jazz kids get, but the only live music they’ll see all year. Period,” Volkmann, who also owns […]